Equine-L is a mailing list for horse enthusiasts. You can join the list and edit your list preferences via the form at:
http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=equine-l&A=1
If you are old school, you may want to just do this all thru email. To join, send email TO:
With the following in the body of the email:
subscribe equine-l Firstname Lastname
(Use your full real name. If you don’t, you won’t be added to the list.)
The list server will send you a confirmation message. You need to click on the link or reply to the message to join the list. Then the list owner needs to approve your subscription.
The default list subscription is digest mode, with [EQUINE-L] added to the subject header, and you don’t get a copy of your own posts to the list. I don’t like these default settings. Once the subscription is confirmed, I send another email with the following commands:
set equine-l mail
set equine-l nosubjectheader
set equine-l repro
The first one sets you to “regular mail”. If you want to change back to the default digest post later on, use:
set equine-l digest
The second one gives you regular subject headers. If later on you decide you prefer the default setting so your list email says [EQUINE-L] in the subject use:
set equine-l subjectheader
The third one sends you a copy of your own posts to the list. I like this – this way I know the post was sent out. If you try this but find you don’t want a copy of your own posts coming back into your inbox, use:
set equine-l norepro
If you want to stop receiving email for a while (but not leave the list) use:
set equine-l nomail
When you want to get mail again, use one of these (as you prefer):
set equine-l mail
set equine-l digest
Finally, to leave the list use:
signoff equine-l
That covers all the listserv commands that 99.99% of subscribers need.